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The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Life is but short no time can be afforded but for the indulgence of real sorry, or contests upon questions seriously momentous. Let us not throw away any of our days upon useless resentment, or contend who shall hold out longest in stubborn malignity. It is best not to be angry and best, in the next place, to be quickly reconciled.
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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
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Genius now and then produces a lucky trifle. We still read the Dove of Anacreon, and Sparrow of Catullus and a writer naturally pleases himself with a performance which owes nothing to the subject.
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I am a hardened and shameless tea drinker, who has, for twenty years, diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant whose kettle has scarcely time to cool who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight, and, with tea, welcomes the morning.
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Whatever professes to benefit by pleasing must please at once. The pleasures of the mind imply something sudden and unexpected that which elevates must always surprise.
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As to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by extravagance, it is no matter to the nation that some individuals suffer. When so much general productive exertion is the consequence of luxury, the nation does not care though there are debtors nay, they would not care though their creditors were there too.
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Wheresoe'er I turn my view, All is strange, yet nothing new: Endless labor all along, Endless labor to be wrong: Phrase that Time has flung away Uncouth words in disarray, Trick'd in antique ruff and bonnet, Ode, and elegy, and sonnet.
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Most men are more willing to indulge in easy vices than to practise laborious virtues.
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Security will produce danger.
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The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef love, like being enlivened with champagne.
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There is nothing against which an old man should be so much upon his guard as putting himself to nurse.
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When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life for there is in London all that life can afford.
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Nothing is more common than for men to make partial and absurd distinctions between vices of equal enormity, and to observe some of the divine commands with great scrupulousness, while they violate others, equally important, without any concern, or the least apparent conciousness of guilt. Alas, it is only wisdom which perceives this tragedy.
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He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.
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The hapless wit has his labors always to begin, the call for novelty is never satisfied, and one jest only raises expectation of another.
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The hopes of zeal are not wholly groundless.
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Books without the knowledge of life are useless.
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It is man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grows torpid in old age.
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We are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction.
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It seems to be remarkable that death increases our veneration for the good, and extenuates our hatred for the bad.
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